About
Bora Mutluoglu is a Bay Area native who studied at UC Santa Cruz, UC San Diego, and UC Berkeley, and previously worked at Palo Alto Networks. He is currently building Reacher, an AI platform for ecommerce businesses operating in the creator economy.
Founder at ReacherYC S25
Intro paths
YC
Bora went through Y Combinator (Summer 2025) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Andrew Miklas, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Reacher's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
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In turn, Bora can intro founders to Reacher's investors below.
Reacher's investors Β· 1
Co-founders at Reacher
JQ
Jerry QianFounder
Experience
- ReacherCo-Founder and Presidentcurrent2024 β present
- Palo Alto NetworksAutomation Engineercurrent2021 β present
- Palo Alto NetworksAssociate Demo Engineer2023 β 2025Santa Clara County, California, United States
- Palo Alto NetworksAssociate Automation Architect2021 β 2023Santa Clara, California, United States
- University of California, BerkeleyAcademic Student Employee for Introduction to Data Science Programming2022 β 2025Berkeley, California, United States
- StorianCo-Founder2023 β 2024
- UC San DiegoInstructional Apprenticeship for Introduction to Python Course2020San Diego, California, United States
- Palo Alto NetworksSystem Engineering Intern2020Santa Clara County, California, United States
- UC San DiegoInstructional Apprenticeship for Introduction to Cognitive Science Course2020San Diego, California, United States
- StriimSolutions Engineering Intern2019Palo Alto
- SSLFlight Software Engineer Intern2018Palo Alto
- SSL (Space Systems Loral)Flight Software Development/Testing Intern2018
- StriimSoftware Engineer Intern2017San Francisco Bay Area
- Peet's CoffeeBarista2015 β 2016Cupertino, California
Skills & more
Google BigQuery3Pandas (Software)2TensorFlowKerasMySQLJavaScriptAnsibleMicrosoft AzureAmazon Web Services (AWS)Salesforce.comTikTok Creator MarketplaceGitHub6
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GitPython (Programming Language)LinuxUnixBashXMLDockerJavaPublic SpeakingLeadershipTeamworkTime-efficientLanguages English Β· Spanish Β· Turkish
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Bora Mutluoglu?
- Bora Mutluoglu is a Bay Area native who studied at UC Santa Cruz, UC San Diego, and UC Berkeley, and previously worked at Palo Alto Networks. He is currently building Reacher, an AI platform for ecommerce businesses operating in the creator economy.
- Where does Bora Mutluoglu work?
- Bora Mutluoglu is Founder of Reacher.
- What companies did Bora Mutluoglu found?
- Bora Mutluoglu founded Reacher.
- Where did Bora Mutluoglu go to school?
- Bora Mutluoglu studied at Y Combinator (Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies); University of California, Berkeley (Master, Information and Data Science); UC San Diego (Bachelor, Cognitive Science (Machine Learning and Neural Computation)).
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